Two Pieces Become One, At Least for Now..

I've finished the neck joint and test bolted everything together, it needs a little adjusting but I'll do that tomorrow.. T some point I'll post full explanation of the neck joint..

Moving on with the Neck

Time to sort out the neck and it's attachment to the body. Remembering this will be a fully removable neck..

The neck is a 5 piece one of Peruvian Walnut & Maple..

The Neck with the scarf joint & stacked heel. All still oversized

Top View -- slot is for carbon fiber reinforcement 

I'll explain more about this when it is finished but basically a floating tenon neck joint

Test fitting......

Closing the Box

The tenor guitar now has a complete or at least closed body.. Still needs some bindings and an arm bevel carved and veneered....

Got the use all the new clamps I got which worked great.

Now on to sorting out the neck & my new neck joint.

All clamped up with finally enough clamps

Front view

Back view

Back to Work on the Tenor Guitar

Now that the holidays are over i can get back to doing some work on the tenor guitar.

I've glued down the braces on the top and back and carved them to shape and the top is more or less voiced, I just need to think a bit about it and decide if I want to try and push things a bit farther and carve the braces down a bit more.

A "quick" video of rough carving the back braces, actual time about 18 minutes
http://youtu.be/pNuLS7FQ8tQ

The rough braces before carving

Top after carving

Back after carving

Playing Music

The Tenor Ukulele is finished, with just a few cosmetic touches left to sort out..

Actually sounds like a ukulele...

Ready for Some Finish

Nice productive day today. I glued on the fretboard last night and today carved the neck, a bit tough being hard maple but went OK.

Just a bit more sanding and I can start finishing. Nice that the maple does not really need pore filling so that saves a step :-)

Using Royal Lac Shellac finish again

Just simple dots on the fretboard

Two Pieces Become One - temporarily....

The Tenor Uke is getting closer to completion, I joined the neck & body tonight just to verify the neck angle and alignment, pretty close but need a bit of tuning. The Fretboard is cut and bound ready for the frets as well. So once that is done I can carve the neck and then just the bridge is left to make..